The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  A-bouen hire hede / hire dowes flekeryng
                                
                                  Biforn hire stod / hir sone Cupido
                                
                                  Vp-on hise shuldres / wynges had he two
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  And blynd he was / as it is oft sene
                                
                                  A bowe he bar / and arwes bright & kene
                                
                                  ¶ . why shuld I nat eke / as wel telle ȝow all
                                
                                  The portrature / þat was vp-on the wall
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  with-Inne the temple / of myghty Mars the rede
                                
                                  Al peynted was the wal / in lengthe & brede
                                
                                  lyke to the Estres / of the grisly place
                                
                                  That hight the gret temple of Mars in Trace
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  In thilk cold frosty / region
                                
                                  There as Mars / hath his souereigne mansion [folio 26b] 
                                
                                  ffirst on the wal / was peynted a forest
                                
                                  In which there dwelleth / neiþer man ne best
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  with knotty knarry / barreyne trees olde
                                
                                  Of stubbes sharpe / and hedous to byholde
                                
                                  In which there ran / a rombel in a swough
                                
                                  As though a storme / shulde bresten euery bough
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  And dounward from an hille / vnder a bent
                                
                                  There stode a temple / of Mars Armypotent
                                
                                  wrought al of borned stele / of which the entree
                                
                                  was long and streyt / and gastly for to se
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  ¶ And þere-ouȝt cam a rage / and swich a veȝe [¶ id est impetus] 
                                
                                  That it mad al the gate / for to rese
                                
                                  The northern light / in at the dores shone
                                
                                  ffor wyndowe on the wal / ne was þere none
                                  Line 1988 
                                
                                  Thorugh which men myghten / eny light discerne
                                
                                  The dore was al / of Athamant eterne
                                
                                  I-clenched ouerthwert / and endlong
                                
                                  with Iren tough / and for to make it strong
                                  Line 1992 
                                
                                  Euery piller / the temple to sustene
                                
                                  was tonne gret of Iren / bright & shene
                                
                                  ¶ . There saw I first / the derk ymagenynge
                                
                                  Of felonye / and al the compassynge
                                  Line 1996 
                                
                                  The cruel / Ire / red as eny glede

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 57
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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